07-07-2021, 02:20 AM
(07-06-2021, 10:14 PM)Dtris Wrote: I really want to know how big the kickbacks these politicians are getting from Pfizer, Moderna, et al. They are selling vaccines like it is their job.
Well inacorruptedsense it is their job, lol, since "big pharma" (and the "weapons industry") are the biggest lobbyists in governments, so it is easy to connect the dots - as always "follow the money."
Big pharma is also heavily invested in news media and newspapers, thru advertising. Pharma companies spends around 30 % of their budget for advertising (it might be even more nowadays, this is what a friend told me who worked for them back in the day...). Ever wonder why the news mostly reports in favor of mainstream medicine?
Our health minister in Germany has been a pharma lobbyist until 2010 And guess who is now pressuring for 12 year old teenagers to take the shot, even if their parents don't want them to......
There was an interesting documentary about how lobbyism destroys democracy.
Well but then, we have known since that Princeton University study 2014 that the US is no longer a democracy, but an oligarchy:
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
And I am pretty sure, that if a similar study were conducted for the EU, it would yield same results.